HS code 1806: Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa
Heading 1806 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 18, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
1806Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa
Place in the nomenclature: 18 Cocoa and cocoa preparations > 1806
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 5
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 21
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 1806
- 1806 10Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cocoa powder, sweetened
- 1806 10 15 Containing no sucrose or containing less than 5 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
- 1806 10 20 Containing 5 % or more but less than 65 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
- 1806 10 30 Containing 65 % or more but less than 80 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
- 1806 10 90 Containing 80 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
- 1806 20Other preparations in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings, of a content exceeding 2 kg
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa, in blocks, slabs or bars weighing > 2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form, in containers or immediate packings of a content > 2 kg (excl. cocoa powder)
- 1806 20 10 Containing 31 % or more by weight of cocoa butter or containing a combined weight of 31 % or more of cocoa butter and milkfat
- 1806 20 30 Containing a combined weight of 25 % or more, but less than 31 % of cocoa butter and milkfat
- 1806 20 50 Other | Containing 18 % or more by weight of cocoa butter
- 1806 20 70 Other | Chocolate milk crumb
- 1806 20 80 Other | Chocolate flavour coating
- 1806 20 95 Other | Other
- 1806 31Other, in blocks, slabs or bars | Filled
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Chocolate and other preparations containing cocoa, in blocks, slabs or bars of <= 2 kg, filled
- 1806 31 00 Filled
- 1806 32Other, in blocks, slabs or bars | Not filled
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Chocolate and other preparations containing cocoa, in blocks, slabs or bars of <= 2 kg (excl. filled)
- 1806 32 10 With added cereal, fruit or nuts
- 1806 32 90 Other
- 1806 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Chocolate and other preparations containing cocoa, in containers or immediate packings of <= 2 kg (excl. in blocks, slabs or bars and cocoa powder)
- 1806 90 11 Chocolate and chocolate products | Chocolates (including pralines), whether or not filled | Containing alcohol
- 1806 90 19 Chocolate and chocolate products | Chocolates (including pralines), whether or not filled | Other
- 1806 90 31 Chocolate and chocolate products | Other | Filled
- 1806 90 39 Chocolate and chocolate products | Other | Not filled
- 1806 90 50 Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from sugar substitution products, containing cocoa
- 1806 90 60 Spreads containing cocoa
- 1806 90 70 Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages
- 1806 90 90 Other
The first 6 digits are the Harmonized System, shared worldwide: a US HTS code that starts with the same 6 digits sits under the same subheading. The last 2 digits are the EU's own CN split.
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Source
Source: EU Combined Nomenclature 2026 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926), © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/. Reformatted by WISEPIM: indent dashes removed and parent lines joined. Only the Official Journal is authentic.